Add command to install an SCM provider to the Switch SCM Provider menu

[egamma]

The Switch SCM Provider submenu (see below) should provide a Command to install SCM extensions, same as it is done for debuggers (Command Install Additional Debuggers) (see below below)

[joaomoreno]

We don't have a Marketplace query for SCM providers, since they don't have any declarative keys. We could create a Category for them and manually add extensions to that category.

cc @waderyan

[waderyan]

FYI the category exists. The category is "SCM Providers" and will show up when we have at least one extension with that category.

[joaomoreno]

Sweet, created the following PRs for extensions to adopt it:

• Change extension category to SCM Providers azure-repos-vscode#210
• Change extension category to SCM Providers stef-levesque/vscode-perforce#69
• Change extension category to SCM Providers mrcrowl/vscode-hg#5

[joaomoreno]

@waderyan Notice that @mrcrowl can't publish his extension with that category:

@joaomoreno vsce won't let me publish with that category:

C:\Users\mrcrowl\Documents\GitHub\vscode-hg-scm> vsce publish
Executing prepublish script 'npm run vscode:prepublish'...

> [email protected] vscode:prepublish C:\Users\mrcrowl\Documents\GitHub\vscode-hg-scm
> tsc -p ./

Publishing [email protected]...
Error: The category 'SCM Providers' is not available in language 'en-us'.

(vsce version 1.20.0)

Are you sure the Marketplace guys already enabled it?

[stef-levesque]

I also get the following warning in in package.json

[stef-levesque]

extensionsRegistry.ts#L142

categories: {
	description: nls.localize('vscode.extension.categories', 'The categories used by the VS Code gallery to categorize the extension.'),
	type: 'array',
	uniqueItems: true,
	items: {
		type: 'string',
		enum: ['Languages', 'Snippets', 'Linters', 'Themes', 'Debuggers', 'Other', 'Keymaps', 'Formatters', 'Extension Packs']
	}
},

This should likely be updated.

[joaomoreno]

Thanks @stef-levesque. Pushed a34e5de

[mrcrowl]

@joaomoreno, @stef-levesque This seems to be fixed now. I've just pushed Hg out using the SCM Providers category.

EDIT: package.json still gives me a warning about the category (this is std vs code, not insiders)

[jeffyoung]

Do we need any particular version of vsce to get this working? Our build machine currently has 1.15.0.

[mrcrowl]

I used v1.22.0 (although I'm not sure if that's important, or whether the marketplace guys just updated their end to accept the new category).

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[joaomoreno]

@jeffyoung Yeah, you might wanna update it to the latest.

Thanks for the confirmation @mrcrowl.

[isidorn]

[joaomoreno]

Awesome @isidorn 🍻